Show A FESTIVE BURGLAR his theft of knives and razors gets him into trouble Tr euble judd P F burke the individual who was brought back from denver on a charge of burglarizing geo M scott buo co s hardware store was before commissioner norrell nerrell today he Is a slight light built individual about live five feet six ix inches in height brown hair and eyes and has an uneasy restless manner about him that does not inspire confidence in a close observer when lie be was wa S arraigned on the charge of burglary committed august 15 he entered a plea ot of not guilty the witnesses for or the prosecution were C 0 king john johh angrea R A keyes and deputy franks the goods about worth of razors knives etc were identified though the marks had been carefully scratched off the boxes the accused had bad given his bis name as john burke when he stayed at andrens An grens boarding house the old utah hotel from august ath to august A chisel which was found in scott co s after the burglary was identified by aagren as one he had seen and handled in burkes room before august luth he had come across this tool in looking about his bis premises because several boarders had complained of being robbed and burke was suspected but went away before anything could be fastened on him he had been in denver but bilt twenty four hours however before he was arrested the defendant testified in his own behalf and told a story that it would be difficult to find any one to believe he said that on the night of august 23 93 1 he be came from lake park on the road from the depot at the corner of second south and third W went abt streets he stepped into a vacant lot while lie he was in the weeds eeds vi a man and boy came to within about ten feet of him they had with them a bundle which they put down the man said he would go ao u up town tow for something but the boy objected no and finally both went leaving their bundle burke says he examined it through curiosity and learning the contents thought he could of them to advantage so took them to his bis room and later shipped them to denver his own story altory of course would not convict him of larceny out but in the cross examination by district attorney peters he be contradicted himself so much in regard to other matters that his word would not amount to much before a jury he claimed to be a ma phinist ch inist and has roamed about the country tor for ten or twelve years he had been in utah before six or eight years ago had had bad several aliases one of them being william taylor another was fred or frank dyer he said he used the latter in utah on his bis former visit he denied having had a trunk when he was in this city last month but shortly after admitted that he had bad one but said it belonged to a man whose name he be did not know A little further on he be admitted having a second trunk and had bad not the district attorney stopped asking questions several more might have loomed up As it was burke was held to answer to the grand lury jury and in default of ball bail was sent to the penitentiary it is not unlikely that burke will p prove rove to be the individual who slugged and robbed J T buckle mr and mrs aagren identify the coat from which mr buckle tore the sleeve as the one worn by burke while at their boarding house mr buckle was waa tak taken en into the marshals office this morning where several men strangers to him were sitting and asked to point out the one whom he thought most resembled his bis assailant his glance firs upon burke whose eyes also matvis met lils burke gave a start as though he recognized mr buckle and this caused the latter to select him h im as the man though he says he did not see enough of him at the time to identify him |